[Members for Durham].—What was the reason that neither the county nor the city of Durham returned members to parliament previous to 1673-4?
O.P.Q.
[Leicester, and the reputed Poisoners of his Time].—At page 315. vol. ii. of D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature, London, 1840, is as follows:—
"We find strange persons in the Earl's household (Leicester). Salvador, the Italian chemist, a confidential counsellor, supposed to have departed from this world with many secrets, succeeded by Dr. Julio, who risked the promotion. We are told of the lady who had lost her hair and her nails," ... "of the Cardinal Chatillon, who, after being closeted with the Queen, returning to France, never got beyond Canterbury; of the sending a casuist with a case of conscience to Walsingham, to satisfy that statesman of the moral expediency of ridding the state of the Queen of Scots by an Italian philtre."
Where may I turn for the above, more particularly for an account of the lady who had lost her hair and her nails?
H.C.
April 9. 1850.
[Lord John Townshend's Poetical Works].—Can any of your readers inform me whether the poetical works of Lord John Townshend, M.P., were ever collected and published, and, if so, when, and by whom? His lordship, who, it will be remembered, successively represented Cambridge University, Westminster, and Knaresborough, was considered to be the principal contributor to the Rolliad, and the author of many odes, sonnets, and other political effusions which circulated during, the eventful period 1780-1810.
OXONIENSIS.
May 4.